Preparation of Improved Turkish DataSet for Sentiment Analysis in Social Media

¹ Sentis Software
² Department of Computer Engineering, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

^⁎ Semiha Makinist: semihamakinist@gmail.com
^⁎ İbrahim Rıza Hallaç: irhallac@firat.edu.tr
^⁎ Beetül Ay Karakuş: betulay@firat.edu.tr
^⁎ Galip Aydın: gaydin@firat.edu.tr

Abstract

A public dataset, with a variety of properties suitable for sentiment analysis [1], event prediction, trend detection and other text mining applications, is needed in order to be able to successfully perform analysis studies. The vast majority of data on social media is text-based and it is not possible to directly apply machine learning processes into these raw data, since several different processes are required to prepare the data before the implementation of the algorithms. For example, different misspellings of same word enlarge the word vector space unnecessarily, thereby it leads to reduce the success of the algorithm and increase the computational power requirement. This paper presents an improved Turkish dataset with an effective spelling correction algorithm based on Hadoop [2]. The collected data is recorded on the Hadoop Distributed File System and the text based data is processed by MapReduce programming model. This method is suitable for the storage and processing of large sized text based social media data. In this study, movie reviews have been automatically recorded with Apache ManifoldCF (MCF) [3] and data clusters have been created. Various methods compared such as Levenshtein and Fuzzy String Matching have been proposed to create a public dataset from collected data. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm, which can be used as an open source dataset in sentiment analysis studies, have been performed successfully to the detection and correction of spelling errors.